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And he from within should answer and say: Trouble me not; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot rise and give thee.
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Yet if he shall continue knocking, I say to you, although he will not rise and give him because he is his friend; yet, because of his importunity, he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
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And I say to you: Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you.
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For every one that asketh receiveth: and he that seeketh findeth: and to him that knocketh it shall be opened:
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And which of you, if he ask his father bread, will he give him a stone? Or a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
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Or if he shall ask an egg, will he reach him a scorpion?
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If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father from heaven give the good Spirit to them that ask him?
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And he was casting out a devil: and the same was dumb. And when he had cast out the devil, the dumb spoke: and the multitudes, were in admiration at it.
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But some of them said: He casteth out devils by Beelzebub, the prince of devils.
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And others tempting, asked of him a sign from heaven.
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But he seeing their thoughts, said to them: Every kingdom divided against itself shall be brought to desolation; and house upon house shall fall.